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In the United States, a court sentenced a 43-year-old Iowa resident to 20 years in prison, who broke into the victim's house and demanded to give him a domain name, threatening with a pistol. Motherboard writes about this.
The incident took place in June 2021. A robber named Sherman Hopkins broke into the home of 26-year-old Ethan Deyo, where, threatening with a pistol, tried to force him to unlock his computer and transfer him the rights to the doitforstate. com domain name. The owner of the house resisted, snatched the weapon from the attacker and shot him several times in the chest. Hopkins was found guilty of illegal possession of firearms, entry into private property and attempted robbery with a pistol.
As the newspaper notes, theft of domains is not uncommon, but Hopkins was the first who tried to do it not online, but physically, and even with the use of weapons. According to information from the personal website of the victim Deyo, he owns several domain names that are for sale. Investigators do not disclose why the perpetrator needed the doitforstate.com domain.
The do it for state meme appeared in 2021 among American students and circulated on social media as a toast or call to do something crazy. The doitforstate.com website page is currently unavailable, and the archive only contains a screenshot from 2015. From the headlines, the site was about college life, and it also linked to another Twitter account @doitforstate, owned by an Iowa-based record company called Elite Sound and Design Studios. The company has not yet answered journalists' questions.
Currently, an attempt to go to the site associated with doitforstate.com is unsuccessful - the page at the specified address reports a DNS error. However, the Wayback Machine online archive contains a copy of the site from 2015, containing stories, videos, and photographs of student life. In addition, there is also a link to the @doitforstate Twitter account, owned by one of the Iowa record companies. The site itself ceased to exist a month after the Cedar Rapids incident.
The incident took place in June 2021. A robber named Sherman Hopkins broke into the home of 26-year-old Ethan Deyo, where, threatening with a pistol, tried to force him to unlock his computer and transfer him the rights to the doitforstate. com domain name. The owner of the house resisted, snatched the weapon from the attacker and shot him several times in the chest. Hopkins was found guilty of illegal possession of firearms, entry into private property and attempted robbery with a pistol.
As the newspaper notes, theft of domains is not uncommon, but Hopkins was the first who tried to do it not online, but physically, and even with the use of weapons. According to information from the personal website of the victim Deyo, he owns several domain names that are for sale. Investigators do not disclose why the perpetrator needed the doitforstate.com domain.
The do it for state meme appeared in 2021 among American students and circulated on social media as a toast or call to do something crazy. The doitforstate.com website page is currently unavailable, and the archive only contains a screenshot from 2015. From the headlines, the site was about college life, and it also linked to another Twitter account @doitforstate, owned by an Iowa-based record company called Elite Sound and Design Studios. The company has not yet answered journalists' questions.
Why is the domain doitforstate.com interesting?
Doitforstate.com is the domain name that the American tried to take illegally, which means "do it for the sake of the state" and is a kind of reference to the local meme of student fraternities. Apparently, Iowa State University students traditionally accompany all sorts of hooligan antics with shouts, the content of which coincides with the domain name so coveted by Hopkins, for which he decided to commit a crime.Currently, an attempt to go to the site associated with doitforstate.com is unsuccessful - the page at the specified address reports a DNS error. However, the Wayback Machine online archive contains a copy of the site from 2015, containing stories, videos, and photographs of student life. In addition, there is also a link to the @doitforstate Twitter account, owned by one of the Iowa record companies. The site itself ceased to exist a month after the Cedar Rapids incident.
